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‘Only towards the end were they written to fit a full-blown Wiccan coven with high priestess and high priest.’

‘Organised by Benin's main voodoo leader Daagbo Hounon Houna, the festival begins with the clatter of tambourines and continues with hours of incantations by high priests of the religion, who fall into deep trances.’

‘For support, Alonso relied on his family and, increasingly, on his babalawo, or Santerian high priest.’

‘The Druids, the high priests of the Celts, spent twenty years learning the traditions and oral lessons.’

‘According to Chief Obadio, the high priest of Oduduwa in Ife, human sacrifice was offered to the deity in the past.’

1.2The chief advocate or proponent of a particular belief or practice:

‘the high priest of surrealism’

‘Goldman Sachs is the arch high priest of the investment banker's temple.’

‘He is a founder of the party and the high priest of its right-wing, low-tax, pro-enterprise economic code.’

‘A clergyman's son, Osler became a high priest of modern medicine and contributed greatly to America's rise to international medical prominence.’

‘For years, the politicians and their high priests of ‘free markets’ and ‘free trade’ have been telling us that we'd better make sacrifices or our prosperity was in danger.’

‘Kerr, the former 20-a-day man, is the high priest of this new ideology.’

‘Newton's millenarian enthusiasm, based upon the deeply held notion that human history was orchestrated by God, was matched later in the century by the millennial speculations of the high priest of rational Dissent, Joseph Priestley.’

‘Vanity Fair is the beautiful people's bible and Carter has been described as ‘the high priest of celebrity culture’, so if he's predicting the end of the Age of Affluence we should stop and listen.’

‘The architects of neoliberalism, the high priests of free market fundamentalism, continue to force through destructive policies with all the fervour of religious zealots.’

‘And this allows the authorities to set themselves up as the high priests of the new moral anti-racism.’

‘As to be expected, Comte appointed himself as the high priest of the new religion of humanity.’

‘Then again, he has been called the high priest of evolution, with Charles Darwin's The Origin of Species as his bible.’

‘As Pierre Boulez turns 80, some of the world's greatest composers give their verdict on the high priest of modernism’

‘They claim to be the high priests of tolerance, and yet they practice intolerance against us.’

‘The high priests of the market preach a similar doctrine, claiming that money can separate itself from the production process and enter a financial heaven where money endlessly begets money.’

‘Over the past 36 years, J.D. ‘Dave’ Power has earned a reputation as high priest of customer satisfaction.’

‘But who could have foreseen that the man once known as the high priest of UK drugs culture would team up with the singer from the ultimate Scottish teenybop band?’

‘Nor does he realize that markets are far more random and far riskier that he is being made to believe by the high priests of the brokerage industry.’

‘He has wrestled with expansion since 1996, when he took over as CEO from Vanguard founder John C. Bogle, the high priest of low-cost index investing.’

‘Here was one of the high priests of modern international capitalism speaking.’

‘Evolution also makes it possible to be ‘an intellectually fulfilled atheist’, according to the high priest of atheism, Richard Dawkins of Oxford University.’